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In that Closer Collectors Edition I counted 32 incorrect pieces of information and was barely half way through. The date will NEVER be corrected. In 1964 Time Magazine planned to do a cover story about the, then, number one box-office attraction in films turning 40. While researching the story they came upon school records and other information that clearly indicated the 1922 date. Someone at the magazine jokingly suggested they title the piece, "Doris Day, 42 turns 40!". Marty Melcher put the kibosh on the piece and it never saw the light of "Day" (pun intended). While the reality that she's alive and fairly healthy and about to turn 95 would be something very admirable, it won't happen. Once Warner Brothers cast the 1924 date in stone - that was it. That became the reality. She's an extremely nice person who is extremely sensitive about the two year difference and so it has remained. Her late son Terry tried to get her to acknowledge the correct date with no success. It is the one area in which she is immovable. Because she led a very low-key life by Hollywood standards, writers that knew the truth like Bob Thomas, Vernon Scott and others, allowed the 1924 date to go unquestioned. Decades ago when classmates were interviewed for various stories, they were all about 2 years older than their classmate, Doris, until Marty began to make sure that ages were never a part of such recollections.

However, the Baptismal Records for the Catholic Church in which she was baptized, indicate her Baptism as happening in 1922 along with scores of others Baptized that year. It would have been impossible to Baptize a baby not yet born or to go back and insert a name years after the fact. It was Warner Brothers who changed the date of birth in 1947 after she signed with them. There are Memos from the Publicity Department noting this. They did not want their new starlet being 25 years of age. As with many other stars (June Allyson, Irene Dunne, Claudette Colbert, etc.) facts were conveniently changed to benefit the marketing of new personalities. One Memo even notes the studio's concern about Miss Day having been married twice and having a five year old son at the time. One individual "suggested" we make her a war widow, left with a young son. It was easier in those days to conceal facts even though, in 1947, Miss Day had already been performing professionally for 8 years. Newspaper stories regarding her 1937 auto accident in which the car she was riding in was struck by a train, note her age as 15 and this was two years prior to her first professional singing gig. When she entered First Grade, the school records also indicate her being born in 1922.

With regard to the number of times Miss Day has voted in a Presidential Election, she noted in an interview with Fredda Dudley Balling a columnist from many years ago, that "The first time I voted was in the 1944 election and I proudly voted for Roosevelt......"

Regarding Doris Day's date of birth - It actually was not Miss Day who made the change from 1922 to 1924. When she signed her Warners contract in 1947, she was 25. The studio decided that they wanted their new player to be 23 - therefore she would be 24 in 1948 when her first film would be released, not the real 26. That seemed a tad old in those days for a new star to be starting out. Doris who didn't like confrontation or putting her studio in a bad light, went along with it and in those days it was easy enough to do. Although she'd been performing professionally for more than 7 years, her fame was not the kind that being a movie star would bring.
In 1964 a national magazine decided to feature Doris on their cover. It would be to promote the upcoming 3rd Day-Hudson film, "Send Me No Flowers", it would be to mark Day's continued reign as number one box-office star and would note her 40th birthday and how unusual it was in America at that time to have someone 40 still playing leading lady roles and having such a level of success.
While researching the piece they discovered her Baptismal records, signed by the Parish Priest in 1922, which would have been impossible had she been born in 1924. They also discovered her first grade enrollment papers ALL indicating 1922 as her date of birth. In addition, newspaper reports about her train/car accident, s couple of years prior to her first professional singing engagement, indicated the correct age (15) in 1937. The magazine then decided to sarcastically call the story "Doris Day, 42, turns 40!" Needless to say when Marty Melcher got wind of it he and the powers to be at Universal (which was releasing "Flowers") put pressure to have the story halted, and it was.

"Lights" has NEVER been released on DVD although when it opened in the summer of 1968, it was a very popular. During it's 6 week engagement at Radio City Music Hall it broke house records during the first two weeks with Variety noting it's $ 278,000 week opener was "The largest one week gross for any one picture at any one theatre in history....." The film co-stars Robert Morse, Patrick O' Neal, Terry Thomas and features Lola Albright, Jim Backus, Steve Allen, Ben Blue and Pat Paulsen. It was released about 6 weeks before the release of Miss Day's 39th and final film, "With Six You Get Eggroll" which was one of the top ten grossing films of Miss Day's 39 titles.

Louis Jourdan the star of numerous films and the man who terrorized Doris Day in the 1956 thriller, "Julie", although for many years they lived across the street from one another on North Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills, has passed away.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/louis-jourdan-star-of-octopussy-gigi-dies-at-93-1201434557/

The 14th of January marked the 50th anniversary of the passing of the legendary Jeanette MacDonald at the age of 61. Whether in the delightful and slightly risqué Lubitsch comedies or the latter MGM musicals, she made a huge contribution to music in films. Even if you don't like that style of singing, she was a talented and unique presence in nearly 30 films over a twenty year period. Here's the link to a tribute I paid to her:
http://highlighthollywood.com/2015/01/jeanette-macdonald-50-years-later-the-music-continues-paul-e-brogans-memories-and-continued-admiration-of-a-hollywood-legend/

A very interesting topic with some extremely diverse and well thought out responses. I just discovered it today and wanted to make a comment on one of the first posts on the topic. It references Eleanor Powell's homage to Bill Robinson in the film, "Honolulu".
It should be noted that the Godparents to Miss Powell's son by actor Glenn Ford, Peter Ford, are Bill Robinson and Pearl Bailey, two of Miss Powell's closest friends.
I was fortunate to know "Ellie" and she often talked about the work she put into the Robinson number in "Honolulu" and consulting with him in order to get it just right. He was delighted with the end result and deeply honored by the tribute. She had enough clout that she would not have done the number had it now been done for the right reasons - as a tribute to someone she cared about deeply.

I too saw it in a theatre, which was actually quite crowded as I recall.
It grossed about 11 million which, in 1980 was not shameful. One of the trades noted at the time that it was the biggest grossing film featuring Elizabeth Taylor since 1967's "The Taming of the Shrew". Clearly, however, they were not including 1974's "That's Entertainment" in which Miss Taylor was a narrator.
As I remember it, not having seen it since 1980, in one scene Elizabeth looks in the mirror at herself and extolls, "Bags, bags go away, come again on Doris Day" and the camera quickly cuts to Rock for a reaction shot.